The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1887-04-09
NEWS NOTES FROM WASHINGTON.

The public debt statement for the month Of
March shows reduction of nearly $12, 100000.
President Cleveland is said to have in con-
temptation visit to Postmaster General Villas
home in Wisconsin.
President Cleveland is said to be saving
three-ifths of his salary for use when the rainy
day of the proverb dawns.
On the LIST instant the Pension Office issued
one thousand pension certificates, the largest
number ever before issued in single day.
The new Secretary of the Treasury, who
graduated at Hazard College in 1868, is devout
member of the Protestant Episcopal Church.
Mrs. Cleveland reads all the notices she re-
ceives in the papers, and frequently expresses
surprise at the many things which she is alleged
to have said and done.
There is a "reliable" rumor in Washington
to the effect that Ex-senator Malone is to succeed
the unsophisticated Jones as chairman of the Re-
publican national committee.
The total redemption of trade dollars up to
Monday last amounted to $3,S75,735. 1t is
thought that the entire redemption will not exceed
six or seven millions of dollars.
In the District Supreme Court on Monday,
in case against the Civil Service Commission
the court decided that the law under which the
Commission acts is constitutional.
There is a rumorin circulation that Secretary
Bayard will shortly be married to a lady named
Miss Markoe, whose family are said to have been
associates of the Bayards for generation.
The Interstate Commerce law having stop
ped the issuing of froe passes by the railroad
panies, it is said there will be fewer Maryland
delegations raiding Washington to see the Presi-
dent and heads of departments.
Capt. Bassett, who was appointed page in
the United States Senate at the requst of Daniel
Webster, has been in the employ of that body
ever since, period of nearly fifty years. He is
at present engaged in writing his "reminiscences.
John L. Sullivan, the pugilist, who was in
Washington on Monday, with his Combination, -
paid his respects to President Cleveland, and al
though he was pleasantly received, he was quite
overcome in the presence Of the head of the Ma
ton.
"A bevy of young ladies from female college
at Auburndale, Mass, called on Mrs. Cleveland,
by appointment, on Monday. Each one was pre-
sented by name and all had a pleasant chat with
the lady of the White House, with whose pleasant
manners and charming cordially they were high
ly delighted.
Secretary Whitney has day-book and ledger
kent by one Of his private secretaries, in which
he keeps strict account of the daily work of each
of his clerks. The time they arrive in the morn
ing, leave in the evening, when they 60 out dur
ing the day and when they return, are all noted
in the book.
has decided to take more outdoor exercise and
among other things it is said he will indulge in
horseback riding, thus following the example Of
several members of his Cabinet, who are in the
saddle every. good day. 1t is also said that Mrs.
Cleveland has aspirations in the same direction.
Col. W. II. Martin, who will succeed Senator
elect Reagan in the House, is as tall and thin as
a rail. He wears long hair and has tuft on
his chin and mustache. His voice is loud and
his gestures are awkward. His trousers never fit
him and he wears q butternut- colored shirt. He
has lived all his life in the pinewoods of Eastern
Texas.
Joseph H. Bradley, the oldest member Of the
Washington bar, died on Sunday last, aged "a
years. He was native of that city and had been
engaged in nearly all the important cases tried
there in the last half century. He was the lead
ing counsel for John Surratt indicted for compli-
city in the assassination of Lincoln, and secured
his acquittal.
Hon. Charles S. Fairchid, the new Secretary
of the Treasury, is a resident of New York State,
and his appointment appears to give great salts.
faction. It is already rumored that Mr.. Fairchild
does no. like Eugene Higgins, the chief appoint.
ment clerk of his department and that one Of his
first acts will be to remove him. This statement,
however, can be taken with good many grains of
allowance.